Leonard Looks Back

The final edition of Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide was released in 2014

Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide, already well-established when Blockbuster Video stores began to appear, was an essential companion in the pre-Internet era of home video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Maltin%27s_Movie_Guide

For twenty years, Maltin was a regular contributor on Entertainment Tonight. He recently returned to ET for this retrospective of his career.

I follow Leonard on Facebook and Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/c/MaltinOnMovies/posts

Cheap Man’s Noir

Continuing to lack Turner Classic Movies, for the previously explained reasons, I’ll put together another faux ‘Noir Alley’ installment with Eddie Muller. This time it’s The Killers, with Burt Lancaster’s screen debut. The outstanding cinematography was by Elwood Bredell.

Extra Added Attraction! Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror. Photographed by Bredell four years before The Killers, the results are equally impressive.

Fed Head

Another nominee on Capitol Hill, playing to an audience of one, named Donald. This time it was Kevin Warsh, sitting in front of the Senate Banking Committee.

Warsh thinks the Federal Reserve Bank needs reform, and not in returning to tighter banking regulation, as Elizabeth Warren rightly wants. His idea of reform will likely be whatever Donald wants.